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Loin

by BLOSSE

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luna_y_sol 1968
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luna_y_sol 1968 Lots of brightness, lack of heaviness. But anyway it's great Blosse!
P.S. I like the old logo. Favorite track: Seelenfrieden.
parasitic*nebula
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parasitic*nebula “Ring-a-ding-dong” - look out folks! Here comes the lo-fi ice cream truck delivering tasty scoops of eardrum splitting mind freezing fun! Cosmic, bombastic, tumultuous and rawer that freshly sliced meat. This is not for the mindless or folks with short attention spans though. The song Mondbeschienen, at abt 3:12, Noctis hammers on that single guitar string like an avalanche of ice falling off a mountainside. The atmospherics that shortly follow is quite gratifying. 9 9 9 9 9! Favorite track: Mondbeschienen.
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tyfighter Great album. For fans of Paysage d'Hiver, these guys really get it. Also, I like that that Eintritt In Die Sphären is a downtempo reinterpretation of Paysage d'Hiver's Welt aus Eis. Favorite track: Seelenfrieden.
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Metalmorphic Massive, drifting, ethereal and at times an enthralling wall of noise. Very well done and awesome at high volume. Favorite track: Seelenfrieden.
VinterVegan
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VinterVegan Fast, atmospheric, dark, very cold and deep, a great masterpiece, for fans of Paysage d'Hiver, Darkspace, Arkhtinn, Earth and Pillars ...., for me Blosse's best work with his album "Nocturne" , excellent cover of Paysage d'Hiver, and the artwork by Moonroot Art is awesome, perfect album! Favorite track: Seelenfrieden.
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''The word LOIN is french for “far” or “distant” and, upon listening to the first track “Seelenfrieden”, it’s quite clear why this album was named so. It starts off with the sounds of a frozen, desolate landscape. The howling wind sends a chill down to the bone and leaves you feeling nothing short of frostbitten. While the wind steadily begins to turn the blood in your veins to ice, the ambiance of the music starts to come forward, setting an unsettling whisper upon the nape of your neck, leaving your hair standing on edge. If this isn’t enough to excite you for what is to come, then as surely as the guitar comes in with a tone just as icy as the landscape around it, you’ll find yourself wanting more. I sure as hell know I did. If you’re familiar with BLOSSE and his other albums then you know the tone and atmosphere I speak of. One thing I love about this project, and this album more than the others, is the power in the vocals. Noctis’ vocals have improved tremendously on this release, as opposed to his previous works. They’re icy, they’re full of rage and full of power which can be witnessed during the last two or so minutes of the first track, when he just lets loose and SCREAMS! It’s absolutely incredible and gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

When we finally make our way through the first snowstorm, we are treated with track two titled Zurückgezogen. This track is 4:22 of dark, ambient soundscapes, and it does a damn good job of setting the atmosphere for the track that is to come. The last thirteen seconds of this track begins to slowly rise in volume and we roll right into the third track titled Mondbeschienen. This monster of a track starts out with the familiar tone and progression that the first track threw us into, only something is different, something is darker and this becomes more evident as the track rages on. That’s not to say that this nearly twenty minute track doesn’t have it’s fair share of melodies and beauty to it, for is there not a certain amount of beauty in death?

I picture myself trapped on a mountain side, the snow blowing all around me. Yet as I stand on this cliff and I look over the frostbitten kingdom before me, a moment of pure raw emotion comes over me and as I accept my fate. I take just a moment to marvel at the beauty laid out before me. That’s how these moments of beauty and clarity are brought to life in this track. At around the eight minute mark we get just another breathe of ambiance until around the 11:30 mark when the chaos breaks loose, yet again, into a pounding double bass laden cacophony of destruction, devastating this landscape of white we’ve been witness to this entire time, leaving it crashing down in an avalanche of despair, until the moment that clarity we receive only when in those fleeting seconds, where the beauty of death is near us, that we are surrounded by the falling ice. The chaos continues until we are no more. We’ve made our journey. “Pres et Loin”

This review wouldn’t be complete without taking a moment to talk about the absolutely wonderful job Noctis has done covering Paysage d’Hiver’s “Eintritt In Die Sphären”. You can truly feel Noctis’ appreciation of the band and he does the track a wonderful justice.''

Cody Ward - MoshPitNation

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released March 20, 2020

Ending track is a Paysage d'Hiver cover.

Artwork by Moonroot Art.
Logo by Francesco Gemelli.

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Dark Ambiant / Black Metal

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